Recently the developers of Assassins Creed have been making some interesting choices with who they select to do their killing. Assassins Creed III put a native american, Kanien’kehaka, in the spotlight. They then released a title for the Playstation Vita which featured a creole woman named Aveline de Grandpré.
This time they’ve placed the wrist blade on the arm of Adewale, an African. As the trailer plainly states, he was born into slavery, and now he’s mad as hell. Blood will be the price!
We all need heroes. Even Black people.
If pop culture were any indication, you might think that the enslaved Africans sat on their hands and waited patiently for Abraham Lincoln and the Yankees. They didn’t. They rebelled.

At San Miguel De Gualdape, the first slaves on North American soil quickly became the first rebels. Then they disappeared into the forests where they are said to have lived out their lives among the native americans while winter claimed their former captors.
Gaspar Yanga, Jemmy the Angolan leader of the Stono Rebellion, our stories go beyond Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman (both of whom were stone cold bad-asses). But you’d never know it.
I want my children to be proud of the strength of their ancestors. I want them to look back over our history in this country and think not just of the pain, but of our strength and willingness to fight. To do that, our stories have to move out of the history books. They have to come alive. Freedom Cry seems like a good start.
I haven’t had a video game system for years. I might get one for Assassins Creed IV, Black Flag, Freedom Cry.